Mayor Bill de Blasio: “We will initiate an effort that is estimated cost $10 billion to extend the shoreline of Lower Manhattan into the East River to protect the Seaport area and the Financial District all the people and live in work there.” In a Thursday-morning press conference held across the street from Battery Park […]

Julius Caesar 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. 1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. 1783 – In an emotional […]